How to Use third dimension in a Sentence

third dimension

noun
  • In the last couple of years there’s a third dimension that is deeper to the skin.
    — Jamie Rosen, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2022
  • So the third dimension is time, which cannot exist without space.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2022
  • And the third dimension happens only if the artist is open to hearing from the room.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • To do that, scientists had to bring the cells into the third dimension.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 27 June 2018
  • But unlike humans in cars, drones have a third dimension to worry about.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2016
  • This lack of a perceivable third dimension can lead to a lot of confusion.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
  • This work added a third dimension to what was previously seen as just surface slicks.
    — Fox News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Thus, intriguingly, the color is flat but the lines hint at a third dimension.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Folds in the cerebral cortex introduce a third dimension there too.
    — R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Submarines will likely shake it up all over again by adding a third dimension underwater.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Plants in containers add that third dimension to our landscape designs.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Aug. 2025
  • That progress has slowed, so the industry is looking to the third dimension to improve performance.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 1 June 2021
  • Foveros takes that into the third dimension, enabling even greater density and a reduced footprint.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Keep peering at your screen, reading and staring, snubbing life’s third dimension and natural hues.
    — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • And things like third dimension This was the style in the ‘30s and ‘40s, to introduce a song with a verse.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • To understand how these defects lift a flat surface into the third dimension, imagine a bug crawling on a sheet of paper.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Jan. 2015
  • Over the past few years, Smith and his colleagues have built upon antigenic cartography by adding a third dimension to their maps.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2022
  • So, La Frontera is a project where these two countries come together, and there is this third country, this third dimension that emerges.
    — Claudia Alarcón, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The addition of a third dimension gives you more flexibility.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2018
  • The third dimension has to do with the other powers necessary to prevent a financial crisis from spiraling out of control.
    — Timothy F. Geithner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2016
  • The team will continue to research the magnetic fields, namely capturing the third dimension of the magnetic field.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The third dimension, environmental impact, was a core focus of this analysis.
    — Time Staff, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Pats of fresh, cold butter, which your teeth slice into with satisfaction, add an optional (and recommended) third dimension to the sandwich.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Combining the images gives a semblance of a third dimension, allowing the researchers to better see how the bacteria use their flagella.
    — Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The third dimension emphasizes the vital role beauty plays in socio-economic progress and development.
    — Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Distortions of the genetic map tells about variations in elevation in the third dimension on the geographic map!
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2010
  • Geographic expansion goals represent the third dimension of strategic fit.
    — David Natroshvili, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Typically shown in a two-dimensional graph, for this project a third dimension is added to allow the depiction of specific information.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But these simulations ignored the role of the third dimension, which is an important factor because as warmer air rises, cooler air is sucked in behind it, creating convection cells.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • To confirm the presumption of homogeneity, astronomers needed to know not only how galaxies are distributed across the sky but how they're distributed in the third dimension of space—depth.
    — Michael D. Lemonick, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024

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